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Roku is Dominating The World of Cord Cutting Far Ahead of the Apple TV & Amazon Fire TV
This week Cord Cutters News held our annual cord cutting survey of over 3,000 of our readers. The survey covered a wide range of cord cutting-related topics including what devices you use. According to the survey, Roku once again dominated with over 69.6% of American readers using a Roku streaming player. That is more than…
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YouTube Says it Still Plans to Make Original Content As it Competes with Netflix and Prime
This morning a report from Bloomberg stated that YouTube is no longer focusing on creating original scripted programming and has dropped shows including “Origin” and “Overthinking with Kat and June.” YouTube responded to the story, as reported by TechCrunch, stating that while the service has dropped those two shows, the company is still investing heavily…
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fuboTV Launches 3 New Bundles
Today fuboTV quietly rolled out 3 new bundles to their live TV streaming services. Sadly no new channels have been added but you can now take advantage of easy bundles of previously offered add-ons to make fuboTV even better. fuboTV still offers their $44.99 a month package that comes with 84 channels, 30 hours of…
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DIRECTV NOW Adds Boomerang to Grandfathered Plans (For a Limited Time)
Last week AT&T quietly added Boomerang to grandfathered DIRECTV NOW plans. It seems that AT&T is taking advantage of the new Warner Bros. Entertainment owned channels to expand the DIRECTV NOW lineup. Boomerang was already on some DIRECTV NOW plans now DIRECTV NOW has expanded it to all DIRECTV NOW grandfathered plans for a limited…
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PBS is In Talks With Hulu, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, YouTube TV, & More
Last year PBS announced efforts to launch on live TV streaming services like Hulu and YouTube TV. They carefully warned though that while PBS owns the rights to many of the syndicated shows the local content is owned by 350 plus member stations that PBS as a parent company does not own or control. This…
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Apple Officially Announces Their Apple TV Channels & Apple TV+ Streaming Services With Roku & Fire TV Support
Today Apple officially announced their long-rumored streaming service. The service will work on Apple devices and any device that supports AirPlay 2 allowing you to watch Apple’s original content and subscribe to third-party services like HBO, Showtime, and Starz. Apple TV Channels will be rolled out in May of 2019. If you have used Amazon…
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Here is Everything New on Netflix, Hulu, & Amazon For The Week of March 25th 2019
March 26 Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid– NETFLIX ORIGINAL March 28 Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL March 29 15 August — NETFLIX FILM Bayoneta — NETFLIX FILM Osmosis– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Santa Clarita Diet: Season 3– NETFLIX ORIGINAL The Highwaymen– NETFLIX FILM The Legend of Cocaine Island– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Traitors– NETFLIX ORIGINAL Tucker…
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Roku’s CEO is At Today’s Apple Event
In about 30 minutes Apple’s new press event will get underway. It is expected that Apple will announce a new streaming service and it has been rumored that Roku will also get support for the new Apple Streaming services. Now it has been confirmed by Peter Kafka that Roku’s CEO Anthony Wood is at Apple’s…
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EXPIRED: The Roku Stick+ is On Sale For a Limited Time
Good news! The Roku Streaming Stick+ with 4K HDR support is still on sale and this time it is just $49.99 down from $59.99. This is as best we can tell the lowest price it has been at since last years Black Friday. You can find this deal on Amazon HERE. You can find our…
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Disney Has Just 90 Days to Sell FOX’s Regional Sports Networks
As part of the deal to get Department of Justice approval for the Disney and Fox merger there was a requirement that the Fox Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) would be sold off. According to the deal, now that Disney has closed on the sale of most of 21st Century Fox they have just 90 days…
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DIRECTV NOW is Offering a Free Month (Ends Soon)
Have you been thinking about trying out DIRECTV NOW’s new Plus or Max packages? Right now if you signup before the end of March you will be able to get a free month of services with promo code MARCH2019. (Terms and conditions apply.) DIRECTV NOW Plus: 40+ channels ESPN, CNN, Fox News, Disney Jr., TNT,…
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The Future of Cord Cutting Is Cutting the Cord on Home Internet
For years cord cutting detractors have pushed the idea that you can’t cut the cord if you get your Internet from a cable or DSL provider. The argument is you are still paying a company that also owns a traditional pay-TV service. Most cord cutters seem to focus on TV as cord cutting and not…
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Viacom & DIRECTV NOW Agree To a New Deal To Keep MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount & More on AT&T’s Streaming Service
Today Viacom and AT&T announced a deal to keep Viacom channels on DIRECTV NOW. AT&T and Viacom had until last Friday to strike a new deal or Viacom channels including Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, Paramount, and more would leave DIRECTV NOW. That deadline was extended and now with this new deal DIRECTV NOW customers who…
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Apple’s New TV Service Will Reportedly NOT Be Free But Will Charge Just $9.99 For HBO
Today The Wall Street Journal ran a report breaking down what their sources are telling them about Apple’s new TV service that will reportedly be announced tomorrow. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple’s service will subsidize services like HBO charging just $9.99 a month instead of the typical $15 a month for HBO NOW.…
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How to Watch CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC, & More On Roku, Fire TV, & Apple TV
Live news and sports are two of the main reasons cord cutters still want live TV. The good news is you don’t need a two-year cable TV contract to stream all your favorite shows. With news coming faster than ever we know you want to stay up to date on some of the biggest ways…
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